House defense authorizers, concerned that the Pentagon might abandon previous investments in the Standard Missile 3 IIB interceptor, want the Missile Defense Agency to consider a new effort to keep developments simmering, a congressional report shows. "The committee believes that it would be imprudent and short-sighted to walk away from these investments and to leave no program of record for the continued improvement of the SM-3 system," House Armed Services Committee members wrote in a report, released this week ,...
